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I would think that Blue Jay fans are a surly lot right now. Obviously the team has massively underachieved so far and unhappy fans+booze=uh oh. These incidents are generally pretty isolated things but add in what I assume was increased ticket sales due to pre-season excitement and you've got pissed off drunk people and more of them to boot. The idea that one of those people might be a jackass isn't a reach.

From the replay, it looks like McLouth voluntarily lurched further into the stands after he'd more or less come to rest, as if he was reaching for a ball that slipped from his glove. Multiple fans were simultaneously signaling "no catch", which I can't remember seeing before, which leads me to think he probably didn't hold onto the ball. That wouldn't justify throwing beer on him, of course, but I suspect that was the motivation. Can't be sure, and the umpire was way late getting out there, although he wouldn't have had a better view unless he arrived at the same time as McLouth and peered over the wall. A well-positioned replay camera would come in handy for such calls.

#3 I was at the Penguins-Ottawa game (game 4). After Pittsburgh jumped way out in front some of the Penguin fans in attendance started taunting the home crowd. Some of whom responded by throwing beer at one particularly obnoxious guy.

Unfortunately they ended up hitting my sister. Stadium security tried to find the people throwing the beer. My sister was more interested in the guys instigating things than the clowns responding.

One of the analysis/intermission/booth guys for SportsNet (Jamie Campbell) had a bird's-eye view of the play (as his desk with Greg Zaun is right above that spot) and he said that McLouth dropped the ball and then reached forward to pick it up with his glove before standing up to show the ump.

#9. Joe, throwing objects, even if they're relatively soft (plastic cup) cannot be tolerated in a crowd. If a thrown paper cup is allowed, then a thrown plastic cup is allowed, and it works its way up from there. Plus it's an incitement to fight. In Maryland, throwing a cup of water on someone is 2nd degree misdemeanor assault, anyway. In the '80's I went to lots of hard rock'n'roll shows: slam dancing, mosh pits, stage diving, but thrown objects were always strictly prohibited, and people generally abided by it.
It's also a freaking cowardly-ass, p**** way of getting at someone. 1985 Cards at Shea Stadium after a rain delay I saw a woman maybe 60 years old, getting booed because of her Cards hat. She proudly pointed to the hat and held up an index finger ("we're No. 1"). At which point several losers started throwing their beer or soda cups at her. I've never been so embarrassed to be a Mets fan. They should put those guys picture in the dictionary next to "loser".

as a former vendor I do recall a weekend game where I saw a fan managed to smuggle an entire case of beer (cans) into the 3rd base general admission area at County Stadium. Today that wouldn't happen, but a can or two is still concealable.